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• 5 x article “peer” review reports of an assigned reading = 25%.
• 10 x class participation + engagement points = 10%.
• 1 x student led presentation = 10%.
• 1 x Grant application initial proposal = 15% “application inquiry” – or preliminary plan.
• 1 x "Grant application final grant = 40%

We define culture in a broadly to socially transmitted and acquired information information that affects and enables human cognition and behavior. That’s not perfect. For example, its clear that birds, chimps, and other organisms have culture, however, this definition makes a start.

1. to clarify otherwise bewildering cultural diversity;
2. to unlock wisdom in culturally inherited systems;
3. to avoid to cultural evolved inequality.

## Warbler Phylogeny

Evolutionary Puzzle 1| cost

It is hardly possible for me even to recall to the reader, who may not be a practical geologist, the facts leading the mind feebly to comprehend the lapse of time … – Charles Darwin, Origins of Species, p.283

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching. –Charles Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin vol 2, p.348)

Religion in your backyard

• Culture and evolution
• Case of religion
• Cost Puzzle
• Endurance Puzzle
• Ubiquity Puzzle
• Also, religion is still prominent, and perhaps will be increasingly so.

joseph.bulbulia@vuw.ac.nz

D-PlACE

Pulotu

Database of Religious History

Seshat

Cultural diversity at the Al Noor Mosque

Cultural diversity in New Zealand as recorded by the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study

Global church map